Flier.



Patented Nov. 26, l90l. R. B. DALY.

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(Application fiIed. Dec. 0-)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD B. DALY, OF WOONSOOKET, RHODE ISLAND.

FLIERQ SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 687,204, dated November 26, 190i.

Application filed December 29, 1900. Serial No. 41,467. (No model.)

To a whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, RICHARD B. DALY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Woonsocket, county of Providence, and State of Rhode lsland, have invented an Improvement in Fliers, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

Fliers as now generally made have two substantially parallel arms extending from curved shoulders united with a neck, and one shoulder of one of the arms is made hollow by forging and then bending a piece of metal, putting it into shape to present a guide for the yarn or roving, said yarn or roving being led from the lower end of said arm to a presser pivotally mounted at the lower end of said arm,

In my experiments to reduce the cost of production of fliers I have produced a castmetal flier comprising a neck and arms having shoulders of such shape that one of said shoulders may be bored longitudinally to receive the yarn or roving, and I have provided the lower end of that arm of theflier which guides the yarn or roving with a presser made as a lever, said presser having at its end most remote from the spindle which is to carry the flier a yarn or roving tube or guide, so that the yarn or roving in said tube is fed directly therefrom to the opposite end of the presser provided with the usual pad.

Figure '1 of the drawings shows a flier embodying my invention in the best form now known to me; Fig. 2, a side elevation thereof, and Fig. 3, a section below the dotted line ac, Fi 1,

In producing my improved flier I form a casting, preferably of malleable iron, it representing a neck A and two arms a I), having shoulders, as a 17, forming an integral part of the neck, the length of the neck above the shoulders and the inclination of the shoulders with relation to the longitudinal center of the neck being such that a line coinciding with the longitudinal center of the inclined shoulders if prolonged toward the upper end of the neck would intersect a line coincident with the longitudinal center of the neck at a sufficient distance above the upper end of said neck to enable a drill to be used to bore the shoulder a to receive the yarn or roving. The opposite ends of the shoulders a have faces a a and a drill 0, (shown by dotted lines, Fig. 1,) it in operation crossing the longitudinal center of the neck, attacking the face a of the shoulder a, and emerging from said shoulder at the face a leaving a bore a for the yarn or roving, and to facilitate the introduction of the yarn or roving into said bore the latter is represented as slotted at a The neck A is bored longitudinally in the usual manner, as indicated by dotted lines, to fit the spindle (not shown) which will carry the flier, said nose, as represented, receiving the yarn or roving at its upper end and delivering it at its side, as at d.

In my invention instead of making the arm aof the flier hollow and slitting the same in the usual manner I mount loosely on the lower end of said arm the hub e of a lever-like presser c, said presser having at its inner end the usual pad 6 to contact with the mass of yarn or roving being wound on any usual bobbin or spool (not shown) and carried by any usual spindle.

The outer end of the presser in accordance with my invention is provided with a tube 6 to receive the yarn or roving from the bore a and guide the same. The tube is slitted, as at 6 for the ready introduction of said yarn or roving therein, and the yarn or roving leaving the lower end of said tube is usually wound about the presser and delivered through the usual eye e in the pad of the presser.

I believe that I am the first to combine with the presser or form as a part thereof a tube or equivalent yarn or roving guide to receive and guide the yarn or roving on its way to the usual flier to be wound upon an ordinary bobbin or spool, and I therefore desire to claim this invention broadly.

As shown, the presser is retained loosely on the lower end of the arm a by a'suitable pin cl, the hub being notched at opposite sides to afford a certain extent of movement of the presser about the arm a, the side walls of said notches limiting the extent of movement of the presser.

To sustain the upper end of the tube a and to prevent the same from being displaced by centrifugal action when the flier is run ata high speed, I have shown the upper end of the tube as provided witha fork d fixed to the tube and surrounding loosely the arm a.

In practice the arm 19 and its shoulder b are of sufficient weight to counterbalance the weight of the arm a and its shoulder and the presser and its tube.

My invention of a presser having a yarn or roving guiding tube connected with or forming a part thereof is applicable with any sort of a flier.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A flier having a neck, and arms connected therewith by shoulders, one of said shoulders being tubular and having a face, as a inclined from the outer side of said arm downwardly toward said neck, the lower end of said shoulder being olfset beyond the part of the arm below it that the yarn may pass from said oii'set portion on its way to the presser combined with a presser mounted on one of said arms and provided at one end with a slitted tube to receive the yarn or roving directly from the bore of the shoulder and to deliver the yarn or roving to the end of the presser.

2. A flier having a neck and arms connected therewith by shoulders, one of said shoulders being bored to form an integral guide therewith for the yarn or roving, and having a face as a inclined from the outer side of said arm downwardly toward said neck, the lower end of said shoulder being offset beyond the part of the arm below it that the yarn may pass from said offset portion on its way to the presser, combined with a presser provided with a slitted tube to receive the yarn or roving from the bored shoulder.

3. A castmetal flier, having an arm provided with a bored shoulder slitted at one side for the introduction of the yarn or roving, combined with a lever-like presser mounted loosely on said arm and provided at one end with a slitted tube to receive the yarn or roving directly from the bore of the shoulder of the flier-arm and to deliver said yarn or roving to the pad end of the presser, and a pin in the lower end of the arm to sustain the weight of the presser.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

RICHARD B. DALY.

WVitnesses:

RICHARD F. DALY, MARY E. DALY. 

